Written by Henrik Ibsen

PEER GYNT - The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Vol. 04 (of 11)

by Henrik Ibsen

The publication of Brand, in March 1866, brought Ibsen fame (in Scandinavia) and relieved him from the immediate pressure of poverty. Two months later the Storthing voted him a yearly “poet-pension” of £90; and with this sum, as he wrote to the Minister who had been mainly instrumental in furthering his claim, he felt “his future assured,” so that ..